Haemaphysalis canestrinii ( Supino, 1897 )

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 81

25. Haemaphysalis canestrinii ( Supino, 1897) .

Oriental: 1) Bangladesh, 2) China (south), 3) India, 4) Myanmar, 5) Nepal (south and central), 6) Pakistan (east), 7) Taiwan, 8) Thailand, 9) Vietnam (Hoogstraal 1971a, Rahman & Mondal 1985, Tanskul & Inlao 1989, Kolonin 1995b, Robbins 2005, Chen et al. 2010, Geevarghese & Mishra 2011, Petney et al. 2019).

Camicas et al. (1998) listed Haemaphysalis canestrinii as an Oriental species, but Guglielmone et al. (2014, 2020) considered some Chinese records of this tick to have been from the Palearctic Region. However, the presence of Haemaphysalis canestrinii in the Palearctic portion of China was not confirmed by Chen et al. (2010) or in subsequent studies by Zhang, G. et al. (2019), Zhang Y.K. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021), as discussed in Guglielmone et al. (2015 and updates). Consequently, Haemaphysalis canestrinii is provisionally treated here as found outside the Palearctic Region.